The easiest way to download and install the latest Apple OS X 10.9 Mavericks OS upgrade is to simply visit the Mac Appstore from your Mac and click upgrade, however if you want to perform a clean installation (format the old setup and install fresh) you will need to create a bootable removable disk drive as shown ahead.

We will be using a simple to use GUI application named DiskMaker X to build a bootable disk drive from Mac OS X installation application downloaded from Apple Macstore (or any other source). As soon as you launch DiskMaker X, the application automatically finds the OS X Install program and proposes to build a DVD or create a bootable install disk as instructed below.

While Microsoft Windows 8 setup assistant utility provides and excellent way to download and create operating-system bootable installation media (CD/DVD/USB/ISO), it does not provide any means to use an existing .ISO file for creation of these bootable media options.

Free licensed copies of AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 4.0 were given away last new year. To celebrate the release of their new upgraded version "AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0", we have been provided with free licenses of "AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.0" to giveaway to our readers.

AOMEI Partition Assistant 5.0 comes with many new features like support for Solid State Hard Drive (SSD) with easy, wizard styled OS migration functionality from HDD to SSD, Partition Alignment for optimized performance and lifespan of the disk and Partition Recovery Wizard to recover lost or deleted partitions. The utility also offers critical features like ability to create WinPE based bootable CD's for disk management via direct boot, fixing of corrupt Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), conversion of GPT disk to MBR disk without data losing, management of Linux partitions and changing of partition type ID and serial number.

SeaTools is a well known utility from popular HDD manufacturer Seagate, SeaTools free hard drive diagnostic software comes in two flavors one for DOS and other for Windows OS.

While both hard-disk diagnostic tools are excellent, they are different as SeaTools for DOS is more powerful because it is able to access the disks more directly and natively to diagnose the problem correctly. SeaTools for DOS is provided as a standard bootable .ISO CD disk image but since all modern computers support the easier bootable USB medium, here is how to get "SeaTools For DOS Bootable from a USB drive".

Malware infections can sometimes block anti-malware utilities or even make the computer unbootable, Microsoft has now came up with a free "Standalone System Sweeper" utility enabling users to get rid of those nasty infections allowing them to perform offline scans to remove viruses, trojans and rootkits effectively.

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper allows users to download latest definitions and make a bootable CD, DVD, or USB stick which when booted from loads the Windows Preinstall Environment (Windows PE) to run the scan and clean infections.

Preparing bootable USB drives has always been a not so easy task requiring a combination of tricks, hacks and tools, thanks to freeware utility WinToFlash this won't be the case any longer as it allows users to create bootable USB disk drives having Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 installation or any other BartPE compatible environment from CD/DVD to USB in a fast and automated way.

A "Bootable Anti-virus Rescue Disk" is a lifesaver when the computer is unable to boot normally or is unstable to such levels that disinfection is not possible because of virus activity, One of the best free bootable antivirus rescue disk "Kaspersky Rescue Disk" has now been made more powerful than ever - featuring not only the renowned powerful Kaspersky malware detection and disinfection engine with ability to update definitions but also a fully featured file-system explorer and a web-browser .

Links to download the latest version of Kaspersky Rescue Disk with a video demonstration of features and usage instructions is available below.

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